GURUGRAM: The CBI has filed a supplementary chargesheet against four Gurugram police officials for falsely implicating a school bus conductor in connection with the murder of a Class 2 student in 2017, allegedly by a senior.
The chargesheet, filed before a special CBI court in Panchkula a few days ago, has named former assistant commissioner of police Birem Singh, currently posted as DSP Tohana in Hisar; then station house officer of Bhondsi police station Narender Khatana, now posted in Palwal; sub-inspector and investigating officer Shamsher Singh, who was promoted to inspector later and retired from service a few months ago; and ASI Subhash Chand, who is still posted at the same police station and is set to retire in 2022. The policemen could not be reached for their response.
On September 8, 2017, the seven-year-old boy was found with his throat slit inside the ground-floor washroom of his school. Police initially arrested Ashok Kumar, a conductor on one of the school’s buses, but the CBI, which took over the probe on September 22, detained a teenager, at the time a Class 11 student, on November 8. In its first chargesheet filed in February 2018, the CBI said the juvenile’s motive was to postpone the parents-teacher meeting. The agency also gave a clean chit to Kumar, who was acquitted by a special court in Gurugram on February 28, 2018.
The CBI’s supplementary chargesheet was filed on five counts – poaching the crime scene, implicating an innocent man by torturing him, coming up with a sexual assault theory when the cops knew there was none, destruction of evidence, and winning over witnesses to create a false narrative.
Kumar, according to the chargesheet, was forced and tortured by police to confess. Cops made the first document of the case in the mortuary on September 8, 2017 in which they mentioned him as a suspect even before a case was registered, it added. They made fake diary entries and forced him to say he had attempted sexual assault, the chargesheet said.
The chargesheet further said that without verifying the facts, Gurugram police had given a clean chit to the juvenile, made him a witness and recorded his statement before the Sohna court on September 15. The CBI said that the gardener of the school had told the cops that the juvenile had informed him about the incident but they did not record his statement. It added that the physical education teacher was pressured by police to give a statement in favour of the juvenile, but he declined.
A CBI officer said the agency has a strong case based on the evidence against the police officials. “We have filed the operating part of the supplementary chargesheet. The supporting documents and list of witnesses will be filed before the court on January 15, the next date of hearing,” the officer said, not wishing to be named.
Sushil Tekriwal, counsel for the victim’s father, said, “The chargesheet filed by the CBI has raised serious questions over the way Gurugram police carried out the investigation and tried to protect the accused and falsely implicated an innocent man.”